Blog - Entries for Tip of the Week (18)

Entries for Tip of the Week (18)

Nov 21, 2025

Water Quality Deep Dive – Understanding Alkalinity

Do you know how to interpret your water quality tests? This week, let’s start with a deeper understanding of alkalinity. PROBLEM: When you send water samples off for testing and results come back, you need to know....

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Nov 14, 2025

Fungus Gnat G'nonsense

Technical Services

Nick Flax is following up last week’s Grower Tip on Rhizoctonia with another poinsettia tip — this time the challenge is fungus gnats. PROBLEM: When a beautiful poinsettia crop is ready to ship or move to r....

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Nov 7, 2025

Disease Pressure On The Rhiz

Technical Services

There are some interesting poinsettia symptoms showing up lately. Here’s why they required a closer look from out pathologists to avoid misdiagnosis of the causal pathogen. PROBLEM: Over the last couple of weeks,....

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Oct 31, 2025

Hide And Seek With Bugs

Technical Services

As you and your team prepare for a top-notch pest-scouting season in 2026, here are some tips from Ball Seed Technical Services expert Nick Flax. PROBLEM: A key to revamping your IPM efforts heading into next season is....

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Oct 24, 2025

Tobacco Mosaic Virus Management Plan

Technical Services

Here’s a helpful tech sheet from the Ball Seed Technical Services team detailing strategies for minimizing the risk of Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) in your greenhouse. PROBLEM: If presence of TMV or another....

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